GNOME Accessibility folks,
We have the opportunity to have two summer interns working on GNOME
Accessibility issues during the summer of 2009. We just need to come up with
projects and mentors!
Background:
At the Grace Hopper conference this year I went to a panel about the
Humanitarian FOSS Project, www.hfoss.org. As a result I met Trishan de
Lanerolle, the project director, as well as Professor Ralph Morelli from
Trinity College.
The Humanitarian FOSS project is bringing students into software development
by appealing to them with open source humanitarian projects. They've had a
lot of success over the past two years. They bring all the students together
on a university campus, house them, pay them and give them open source
software projects to work on. The students have access to each other,
professors and remote mentors from the project. Past projects have included
working on disaster recovery software, volunteer scheduling software and
medical imaging software.
Another benefit from my perspective is that the humanitarian aspect brings
in people that might not traditionally have been drawn to open source. (They
were at the Grace Hopper conference because last summer's group included
quite a few women.)
Their project is 100% funded by an NFS grant right now although they'd like
to have companies fund additional interns in the future.
What is being offered to us:
- Two interns during the summer of 2009, housed at Trinity, paid by
Trinity, with professors to help them.
What we would need to come up with:
- Projects:
- projects that a novice coder could get started on
- humanitarian focus (accessibility is good)
- something they can make good progress and complete in a summer
- Mentors
- mentoring is done via email and skype
Does this sound like a good idea? Something you are interested in? Thoughts?
Stormy
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